Oxana Schmies
@oxanaschmies.bsky.social
Analyzing Russia: from a security threat to building democracy
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/natos-enlargement-and-russia/9783838214788
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/natos-enlargement-and-russia/9783838214788
New Russian Analytical Digest:
My article on the response of Russian activists to the recent oil spill on the Black Sea and the possibility that this movement marks the beginning of a new form of society-based initiatives to address environmental issues.
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My article on the response of Russian activists to the recent oil spill on the Black Sea and the possibility that this movement marks the beginning of a new form of society-based initiatives to address environmental issues.
css.ethz.ch/publikatione...
Nr. 332: Russia, the Climate and Ecological Activism
Diese Ausgabe befasst sich mit den miteinander verflochtenen Themen Klimawandel und Umweltaktivismus im heutigen Russland. Oxana Schmies untersucht die Reaktion russischer Aktivisten auf die jüngste Ö...
css.ethz.ch
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
New Russian Analytical Digest:
My article on the response of Russian activists to the recent oil spill on the Black Sea and the possibility that this movement marks the beginning of a new form of society-based initiatives to address environmental issues.
css.ethz.ch/publikatione...
My article on the response of Russian activists to the recent oil spill on the Black Sea and the possibility that this movement marks the beginning of a new form of society-based initiatives to address environmental issues.
css.ethz.ch/publikatione...
My last piece on the Black Sea ecological disaster and civil society in the midst of it
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Troubled Waters - Transitions
In a display of civic solidarity unprecedented since the invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Russians are working to minimize the damage caused by the Black Sea oil spill.
tol.org
June 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
My last piece on the Black Sea ecological disaster and civil society in the midst of it
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tol.org/client/artic...
My current work project.
Making Russian and Ukrainian environmentalists be heard!
Russia and Ukraine are being affected.
Millions of tons of highly toxic fuel oil still on the bottom.
Russia distors crudely the real situation, intimidates the volunteers.
www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
Making Russian and Ukrainian environmentalists be heard!
Russia and Ukraine are being affected.
Millions of tons of highly toxic fuel oil still on the bottom.
Russia distors crudely the real situation, intimidates the volunteers.
www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
Russland: Ölpest im Schwarzen Meer hat fatale Folgen
Im Dezember havarierten im Schwarzen Meer zwei Öltanker. Russland versucht, die Folgen der Katastrophe allein zu bewältigen. Dabei sind noch Tausende Tonnen eines besonders gefährlichen Schweröls in d...
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May 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
My current work project.
Making Russian and Ukrainian environmentalists be heard!
Russia and Ukraine are being affected.
Millions of tons of highly toxic fuel oil still on the bottom.
Russia distors crudely the real situation, intimidates the volunteers.
www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
Making Russian and Ukrainian environmentalists be heard!
Russia and Ukraine are being affected.
Millions of tons of highly toxic fuel oil still on the bottom.
Russia distors crudely the real situation, intimidates the volunteers.
www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
Reposted by Oxana Schmies
Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher from Russia, has been charged with smuggling after failing to declare frog embryo samples on her U.S. customs form. Following the charges, she was transferred to a federal prison.
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Harvard scientist from Russia charged with smuggling frog embryos into U.S., sent to federal prison — Meduza
Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher from Russia, has been charged with smuggling for attempting to bring frog embryos into the United States, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in…
meduza.io
May 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher from Russia, has been charged with smuggling after failing to declare frog embryo samples on her U.S. customs form. Following the charges, she was transferred to a federal prison.
meduza.io/en/news/2025...
meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Reposted by Oxana Schmies
Yesterday, a Russian court sentenced four journalists to 5.5 years in prison for allegedly helping make YouTube videos for Navalny's organization. Who are they?
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'I have always acted within the law' Who are the four Russian journalists jailed for their alleged work with Navalny's organization? — Meduza
On Tuesday, a Moscow court sentenced journalists Antonina Favorskaya, Sergey Karelin, Konstantin Gabov, and Artem Kriger to 5.5 years in prison on charges of participating in an “extremist…
meduza.io
April 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Yesterday, a Russian court sentenced four journalists to 5.5 years in prison for allegedly helping make YouTube videos for Navalny's organization. Who are they?
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
"Rosprirodnadzor has estimated the environmental damage caused by the fuel oil spill in the Black Sea at 85 billion rubles. Tanker owners have been given a month to compensate for the damage". So much for the title.
Worth to dig in deeper in the figures of the ecological catatstrophe still unfolding
Worth to dig in deeper in the figures of the ecological catatstrophe still unfolding
April 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"Rosprirodnadzor has estimated the environmental damage caused by the fuel oil spill in the Black Sea at 85 billion rubles. Tanker owners have been given a month to compensate for the damage". So much for the title.
Worth to dig in deeper in the figures of the ecological catatstrophe still unfolding
Worth to dig in deeper in the figures of the ecological catatstrophe still unfolding
Reposted by Oxana Schmies
A Russian court sentenced Soviet dissident Alexander Skobov to 16 years in prison for his anti-war views today. He used his closing speech to slam Putin as “the new Hilter.”
Russia imprisons Soviet dissident Skobov for anti-war views
A Russian court sentenced Soviet dissident Alexander Skobov to 16 years in prison on Friday for his anti-war views — right after he used his closing speech to rail against Vladimir Putin’s regime and…
meduza.io
March 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A Russian court sentenced Soviet dissident Alexander Skobov to 16 years in prison for his anti-war views today. He used his closing speech to slam Putin as “the new Hilter.”
I am urgently seeking experts from NGOs, environmental protection and humanitarian organizations, etc., who can provide information on how to officially submit an appeal for international medical assistance to humanitarian international organizations after an enviromental disaster!
March 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I am urgently seeking experts from NGOs, environmental protection and humanitarian organizations, etc., who can provide information on how to officially submit an appeal for international medical assistance to humanitarian international organizations after an enviromental disaster!
Reposted by Oxana Schmies
The White House is considering officially recognizing Crimea as Russian territory as part of a possible future peace agreement, according to Semafor.
U.S. considering recognizing Crimea as Russian territory — Semafor
The White House is considering officially recognizing Ukraine’s occupied Crimean peninsula as Russian territory as part of a future peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, Semafor reported on…
meduza.io
March 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The White House is considering officially recognizing Crimea as Russian territory as part of a possible future peace agreement, according to Semafor.
Reposted by Oxana Schmies
Journalist Maria Ponamarenko, who’s serving a six-year prison sentence for spreading “disinformation” about the Russian army, cut her veins in prison. She told her lawyer she had to do it “because of constant harassment by the prison administration.”
Journalist jailed for ‘disinformation’ about Russian army cuts veins ‘because of constant harassment’ by prison staff — Meduza
Russian journalist Maria Ponamarenko, who is serving a six-year prison sentence for spreading “disinformation” about the Russian army, cut her own veins in prison, the human rights organization…
meduza.io
March 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Journalist Maria Ponamarenko, who’s serving a six-year prison sentence for spreading “disinformation” about the Russian army, cut her veins in prison. She told her lawyer she had to do it “because of constant harassment by the prison administration.”
Reposted by Oxana Schmies
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.
February 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
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"Nemtsov couldn’t be bought. He couldn’t be intimidated. He couldn’t be forced into exile. So they killed him," exiled Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza wrote of his late mentor.
‘He couldn’t be bought. So they killed him.’ Vladimir Kara-Murza reflects on the tenth anniversary of his mentor Boris Nemtsov’s assassination — Meduza
On the night of February 27, 2015, Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shot four times in the back on Moscow’s Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, just a few hundred meters from the Kremlin. Two…
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February 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"Nemtsov couldn’t be bought. He couldn’t be intimidated. He couldn’t be forced into exile. So they killed him," exiled Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza wrote of his late mentor.
The volunteers at the Russian Black Sea coast. The picture speaks for itself.
December 25, 2024 at 9:45 PM
The volunteers at the Russian Black Sea coast. The picture speaks for itself.
Thousands of volunteers are trying despite high health risk to clean up the oil spill on the Russian Black Sea coast, to save people, birds and the coast. International information support is urgently needed!
December 23, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Thousands of volunteers are trying despite high health risk to clean up the oil spill on the Russian Black Sea coast, to save people, birds and the coast. International information support is urgently needed!
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Ecological catastrophy in the Black Sea, Russian coast.
I could connect to the people who are in Russia and are helping people and animals. Urgent need, also internationa media coverage is needed!
Ecological catastrophy in the Black Sea, Russian coast.
I could connect to the people who are in Russia and are helping people and animals. Urgent need, also internationa media coverage is needed!
December 23, 2024 at 6:03 PM
!!!
Ecological catastrophy in the Black Sea, Russian coast.
I could connect to the people who are in Russia and are helping people and animals. Urgent need, also internationa media coverage is needed!
Ecological catastrophy in the Black Sea, Russian coast.
I could connect to the people who are in Russia and are helping people and animals. Urgent need, also internationa media coverage is needed!
Es gibt viel, viel mehr dazu zu sagen. Eine sehr große ökologische Katastrophe geht da gerade von statten.
Menschen und Tiere benötigen vor Ort Hilfe, die Ausmaße der Katastrophe, die betroffenen Regionen sind noch zu bestimmen.
Es muss auch mehr berichtet werden, international!!!
Menschen und Tiere benötigen vor Ort Hilfe, die Ausmaße der Katastrophe, die betroffenen Regionen sind noch zu bestimmen.
Es muss auch mehr berichtet werden, international!!!
Delfinsterben in der russischen Region Krasnodar (Kuban). Ursache ist wohl das ausgelaufene Heizöl der russischen Schattenflotte bei Kertsch.
December 23, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Es gibt viel, viel mehr dazu zu sagen. Eine sehr große ökologische Katastrophe geht da gerade von statten.
Menschen und Tiere benötigen vor Ort Hilfe, die Ausmaße der Katastrophe, die betroffenen Regionen sind noch zu bestimmen.
Es muss auch mehr berichtet werden, international!!!
Menschen und Tiere benötigen vor Ort Hilfe, die Ausmaße der Katastrophe, die betroffenen Regionen sind noch zu bestimmen.
Es muss auch mehr berichtet werden, international!!!
!!!A really large ecological catastrophy is currently taking place in the Black Sea, on the Russian coast.
People and animals need urgent help.
There are local chat groups on Telegram, in Russian.
There must more coverage on this ecological disaster.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
People and animals need urgent help.
There are local chat groups on Telegram, in Russian.
There must more coverage on this ecological disaster.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Two Russian oil tankers wrecked in Black Sea's Kerch Strait
Video appears to show one of the tankers broken in half and sinking amid a heavy storm, with oil visible in the water.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2024 at 5:39 PM
!!!A really large ecological catastrophy is currently taking place in the Black Sea, on the Russian coast.
People and animals need urgent help.
There are local chat groups on Telegram, in Russian.
There must more coverage on this ecological disaster.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
People and animals need urgent help.
There are local chat groups on Telegram, in Russian.
There must more coverage on this ecological disaster.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
March 2, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Social network X (former Twitter) blocked Yulia Navalnaya's account
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February 20, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Social network X (former Twitter) blocked Yulia Navalnaya's account
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Reposted by Oxana Schmies
Das Verschwindenlassen von Menschen erinnert an Mafia-Methoden. Es soll Angst & Schrecken verbreiten, die Opposition einschüchtern und zermürben.
December 15, 2023 at 1:52 PM
Das Verschwindenlassen von Menschen erinnert an Mafia-Methoden. Es soll Angst & Schrecken verbreiten, die Opposition einschüchtern und zermürben.